diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/vm/vmfs-tools/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/vm/vmfs-tools/package.nix
deleted file mode 100644
index b8ce3cd60d99..000000000000
--- a/pkgs/by-name/vm/vmfs-tools/package.nix
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,49 +0,0 @@
-{
-  lib,
-  stdenv,
-  fetchFromGitHub,
-  pkg-config,
-  asciidoc,
-  docbook_xsl,
-  fuse,
-  libuuid,
-  libxslt,
-}:
-
-stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
-  pname = "vmfs-tools";
-  version = "0.2.5.20160116";
-
-  src = fetchFromGitHub {
-    owner = "glandium";
-    repo = "vmfs-tools";
-    rev = "4ab76ef5b074bdf06e4b518ff6d50439de05ae7f";
-    sha256 = "14y412ww5hxk336ils62s3fwykfh6mx1j0iiaa5cwc615pi6qvi4";
-  };
-
-  nativeBuildInputs = [
-    asciidoc
-    docbook_xsl
-    libxslt
-    pkg-config
-  ];
-
-  buildInputs = [
-    fuse
-    libuuid
-  ];
-
-  enableParallelBuilding = true;
-
-  postInstall = ''
-    install -Dm444 -t $out/share/doc/vmfs-tools AUTHORS LICENSE README TODO
-  '';
-
-  meta = {
-    description = "FUSE-based VMFS (vmware) file system tools";
-    maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ peterhoeg ];
-    license = lib.licenses.gpl2Plus;
-    platforms = lib.platforms.linux;
-    inherit (finalAttrs.src.meta) homepage;
-  };
-})
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
index 4eba7ad0030e..2225120649c0 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/aliases.nix
@@ -2254,6 +2254,7 @@ mapAliases {
   vistafonts-cht = throw "'vistafonts-cht' has been renamed to/replaced by 'vista-fonts-cht'"; # Converted to throw 2025-10-27
   vkBasalt = throw "'vkBasalt' has been renamed to/replaced by 'vkbasalt'"; # Converted to throw 2025-10-27
   vkdt-wayland = throw "'vkdt-wayland' has been renamed to/replaced by 'vkdt'"; # Converted to throw 2025-10-27
+  vmfs-tools = throw "'vmfs-tools' has been removed as it depends on unsupported fuse2 and is unmaintained upstream"; # Added 2026-06-07
   vokoscreen = throw "'vokoscreen' has been replaced by vokoscreen-ng"; # Added 2025-10-21
   volk_2 = throw "'volk_2' has been removed after not being used by any package for a long time"; # Added 2025-10-25
   volnoti = throw "'volnoti' has been removed due to lack of maintenance upstream. Consider using 'rumno' instead."; # Added 2024-12-04